Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.